April 21
2012

Joss Whedon: Hollywood's golden boy.
The Guardian says Joss is the "hottest property in cinema..." (My take: "Like most overnight successes, this one only took twenty years.") Anyway, we knew him when.

Because *I* haven't yet seen CiTW, I skipped lightly reading over those bits, but my impression was that there was some summation of its content & nature - but I was hoping a mod could tell more precisely if there was something that would be considered as spoiler. I'm never sure of that anyway, even if I have seen whatever is under discussion. (Which was Joss' career as a whole, but more specifically, CitW: hence its category & tags.)

I prefer to err on the side of safety, but I'm also aware that many of you have already seen CitW, and for anyone that has, of course, there are no spoilers.

This is a very nice supportive article, but if 'Avengers' doesn't break all known box office records then it sounds like it might be considered to be a failure (LOL). Also I think this writer believes that all of Joss' fans are teenagers/young adults. Considering I get the senior discount at all the movie theaters now, I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Joss Whedon being Hollywood's golden boy feels a bit like wishful thinking at this point. I'm waiting until Avengers wins big time, or if Hollywood gushes over Much to Do About Nothing. Or if they green-light Serenity 2.

Yeah, two movies "in a fortnight," but one them was actually done quite a while ago....And I hope Joss captures the 15-25 demo, but at the events I've gone to, most of the people look a bit closer to 30 (still much younger than me, though!)

However, I'll not nitpick, because Joss being Hollywood's golden boy would be a very very good thing.

You should try Amazon, I would think they would sell the Cabin poster.

At the theater I go to, they sometimes have a table near the front doors of the lobby or off to the side of the lobby and they put free movie stuff there. So on this table there was Cabin in the Woods posters and some other movie posters that I did not care about.

I didn't look last week, but when I saw the movie again, I was looking around the lobby.

So look around the lobby for tables of stuff. You could ask a staff person because sometimes free stuff is only given out to people who ask.

If Universal got the idea of ordering a Serenity sequel, I think we can pretty safely assume it wouldn't be called "Serenity 2". Studios don't like "2" anymore, especially when the first movie didn't do huge, since it makes people go "well, I didn't see the first one, so I'd be lost seeing the sequel". And it would have to be a stand-alone follow-up rather than a direct story continuation. Which wouldn't be impossible to pull off, since Serenity wrapped itself up pretty nicely (although the end of Float Out suggested a certain shift in the status quo, and since a few years have passed since Wash died, one can probably infer how far that has gone in the interim).

Well this community will probably go exponential and the proof is in Sears. There were Avengers shirts everywhere. Of course I bought one for my youngest. It came with a truck. Yup the marketing machine is going into overdrive. I wonder if there will be a Happy Meal?

Dammit, now I want a cool Avengers t-shirt. Though I doubt I'll ever find a pop-culture t-shirt better than my Darth Vader one. It's not just cool, it also doesn't make you look like a stylistically challenged dork.